Abandoned No More: New Lives for 13 Disused Spaces
While many abandoned places are ultimately demolished (and sometimes temporarily serve as settings for unexpected art installations), some get a second chance at life with restoration projects ...
Tag: adaptive reuse
Rebuilding Infrastructure: Viaduct turned Holiday Home
Construction on the highway from Salerno to Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy began int he 1960s - and it's still not finished. A stretch that has been abandoned for decades includes a viaduct ...
Abandoned Walmart is Now America’s Largest 1-Floor Library
There are thousands of abandoned big box stores sitting empty all over America, including hundreds of former Walmart stores. With each store taking up enough space for 2.5 football fields, ...
Rustic Ruins to Modern Residences: 3 Barn Renovations
Aging barns are often left to simply deteriorate, the stone crumbling, weathered wooden siding falling to the ground. But in their dramatic A-frame silhouettes and wide-open simplicity, some ...
Underground Art: The Repurposed Oil Tanks at Tate Modern
Once a power station, now a repository for some of the world's most innovative art: the expansion of the Tate Modern art museum in London is repurposing industrial infrastructure in surprising ...
Modular Madness: 23 Diverse Deployments of Cargo Containers
Portable, durable, stackable and readily available all over the world, shipping containers are the ideal building blocks for smart structures of practically every variety. Some require just a ...
13 Crazy Air, Sea & Land Vehicle-to-House Conversions
When airplanes have made their last flight, ships are no longer seaworthy and school buses are finished ferrying children to and fro, where do they go to die? Many end up in object graveyards, ...
Dumpster Drinking! Skips Turned into Miniature Bars
What is trash, really, but materials that certain people decide are no longer useful? Scraps of wood, broken furniture and other piece of so-called junk sitting in a dumpster might seem destined ...
Fire-Inspired: 14 Converted & New Lookout Tower Homes
Look out! These 14 tall and narrow houses rise up above the landscape to enable incredible panoramic views of rustic nature preserves, lakes and city skylines. Some are converted from old fire ...
Modern-Day Sky Castles: 7 Cool Converted Watertower Houses
Water towers have been a common sight in cities, towns and villages all across the world since at least the Industrial Revolution. As certain towers fall out of use for one reason or another, ...
